Re: [RFC] Counting of non-countable objects
| From: | Markus Fischer | Date: | Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:57:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Counting of non-countable objects | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi,
On 04.10.16 11:32, Craig Duncan wrote:
> I'd like to propose the introduction of warning when counting objects that
> can't be counted.
>
> The default behaviour is to return 1 for these objects, which can be
> misleading and hide bugs when attempting to count iterable objects (eg
> Generators). Adding a warning would alert developers to the issue
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/counting_non_countables
FTR, this also applies to certain non-object types too, see
https://3v4l.org/jqntq :
<?php
var_dump(count("string"));
var_dump(count(true));
var_dump(count(false));
var_dump(count(4321));
int(1)
int(1)
int(1)
int(1)
I was hit by this bug just last week :-(
- Markus